Nancy Pelosi’s campaign brochure. (Photo: Richie Greenberg for California Globe)
Nancy Pelosi Retiring: A Legacy of Elitism, Hypocrisy and Partisan Power
Pelosi leaves behind a trail of controversies that expose the rot at the heart of liberal elitism
By Richie Greenberg, November 6, 2025 7:51 am
For nearly four decades, Nancy Pelosi (now 85) ruled as the iron-fisted queen of the Democratic Party, wielding her gavel with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. She’s finally leaving.
Now, as she today announced she won’t run for re-election next year toward retirement, Pelosi leaves behind a trail of controversies that expose the rot at the heart of liberal elitism: selective outrage, insider enrichment, and a cavalier disregard for the voters she claimed to serve. From ripping up a presidential speech, dodging accountability on crime and her questionable endorsements of local issues, Pelosi’s record is less a legacy of leadership than a blueprint for progressive hypocrisy.
In 2020, Pelosi tore up Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on national television, smirking. She called it a protest against “lies.” We saw it for what it was: a tantrum from a woman who believes rules apply to everyone but her. This wasn’t principle; it was performance art for the so-called resistance. Yet when her own husband raked in millions trading stocks timed to congressional briefings, Pelosi shrugged. Insider trading? “People are free to invest,” she sneered—until public outrage forced a half-hearted pivot. No apology. No reform, just another day of elite Pelosi privilege.
Then came the COVID hypocrisy. While small businesses shuttered and families scraped by under her party’s lockdowns, Pelosi waltzed into a San Francisco salon for a blowout—indoors, maskless, rules be damned. What rules? Caught on camera, she blamed a “setup.” The same woman who lectured Americans about “shared sacrifice” during Covid couldn’t be bothered to follow her own edicts. It was a perfect metaphor: Washington liberals preach austerity from marble halls while breaking their own rules in private. She joins Gavin Newsom and former San Francisco mayor London Breed as leaders which flouted lockdown rules and got caught.
Pelosi’s foreign policy gambles were no less reckless. Her 2022 Taiwan trip—defying then-President Biden administration’s warnings—triggered Chinese military drills and rattled global markets. She framed it as a stand for democracy. Critics saw a vanity project that risked a skirmish for a photo op.
Back home in San Francisco, Pelosi’s meddling in local politics reveals a politician more interested in dynasty than democracy. She was a major fundraising force, directing PACs to add to the Proposition 50 war chest, letting Democrats gerrymander California maps.
Her local San Francisco-centric endorsements were equally tone-deaf. She backed controversial Proposition K last year, permanently closing our beloved Great Highway to private vehicles in favor of a “park” that strands commuters and pushes traffic into quiet neighborhoods. When the district supervisor Joel Engardio faced recall for co-sponsoring that Prop K road-closure measure, Pelosi swooped in from D.C. to oppose it—praising his “results” while ignoring his own Sunset District constituents fury. Voters booted Engardio anyway. Pelosi’s support for radical supervisors like Dean Preston, a Democratic Socialist – even as our city’s crime spiraled – showed a leader more loyal to dangerous progressive ideology than our public safety.
Her silence on Chesa Boudin is particularly damning. The former Soros-aligned DA’s soft-on-crime policies turned San Francisco into a shoplifter’s and window smasher’s paradise. While the city’s Democratic Party establishment rallied against Boudin’s 2022 recall, Pelosi said nothing, no endorsement nor opposition, just strategic cowardice. She’d intervene to save a highway closure but wouldn’t touch a rogue prosecutor whose failures filled national headlines with car break-ins and overdose deaths.
Pelosi’s Catholic faith offers yet another controversy. A professed devout believer, she championed abortion on demand, dismissing her church teachings. When bishops called her out, she doubled down. Faith, for Pelosi, is a prop—useful for photo ops, irrelevant when inconvenient. Read the San Francisco Archbishop’s order to refuse her communion (HERE).
As she exits office, Pelosi leaves a party addicted to extreme power. Her long career wasn’t about service; it was about control. From stock trades to gerrymandering, from salon visits to silence on crime, she embodied the arrogance of an elite that demands obedience and offers no accountability. San Francisco is a tarnished beacon of innovation amid drug dealers, crime, homelessness and fiscal dysfunction—partly because officials like Pelosi prioritize progressive ideology over results.
We shouldn’t mourn her departure. I certainly won’t.
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The damage Pelosi and her cohorts wreaked on America is permanent.
Now Californians can look foreword to Weiner’s demented and perverted influence on America.
Pelosi has never endorsed Weiner and she won’t do it now. She wants her daughter to take her place:
Per GROK:
No, Nancy Pelosi has never endorsed Scott Wiener in any of his political campaigns.
Key facts from public records and campaign filings:
2016 State Senate primary (District 11): Pelosi endorsed rival Jane Kim (San Francisco Supervisor). This was widely reported and confirmed in Pelosi’s official endorsement list released to media in May 2016. Scott Wiener finished second in that primary behind Kim but advanced to the general because Kim’s votes were split with third-place candidate Mark Leno in the top-two system.
2016 General election: Pelosi stayed neutral and did not endorse either Wiener or Kim.
2020 re-election: No endorsement from Pelosi. Wiener’s major endorsements came from Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, the California Democratic Party, labor unions, and LGBTQ organizations.
2024 re-election: Again no Pelosi endorsement. Wiener ran unopposed in the primary and faced only a minor Republican challenger in the general; Pelosi’s endorsement list for 2024 (published on her campaign site and in the San Francisco Chronicle) does not include him.
Sources confirming the 2016 endorsement of Jane Kim:
Politico (May 2016): “Pelosi endorses Kim in California Senate race”
San Francisco Chronicle (May 2016): “Nancy Pelosi backs Jane Kim over Scott Wiener”
Pelosi’s own press release archived on her congressional website
No, Nancy Pelosi has never endorsed Scott Wiener in any of his political campaigns.
Key facts from public records and campaign filings:
2016 State Senate primary (District 11): Pelosi endorsed rival Jane Kim (San Francisco Supervisor). This was widely reported and confirmed in Pelosi’s official endorsement list released to media in May 2016. Scott Wiener finished second in that primary behind Kim but advanced to the general because Kim’s votes were split with third-place candidate Mark Leno in the top-two system.
2016 General election: Pelosi stayed neutral and did not endorse either Wiener or Kim.
2020 re-election: No endorsement from Pelosi. Wiener’s major endorsements came from Gov. Gavin Newsom, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, the California Democratic Party, labor unions, and LGBTQ organizations.
2024 re-election: Again no Pelosi endorsement. Wiener ran unopposed in the primary and faced only a minor Republican challenger in the general; Pelosi’s endorsement list for 2024 (published on her campaign site and in the San Francisco Chronicle) does not include him.
Sources confirming the 2016 endorsement of Jane Kim:
Politico (May 2016): “Pelosi endorses Kim in California Senate race”
San Francisco Chronicle (May 2016): “Nancy Pelosi backs Jane Kim over Scott Wiener”
Pelosi’s own press release archived on her congressional website
No credible news outlet, campaign finance filing, or official statement has ever shown Pelosi endorsing Wiener at any point (2016, 2020, or 2024). The two have occasionally appeared together at Democratic Party events, but co-appearance ≠ endorsement.
The evil Democrat witch Pelosi was bragging that San Francisco is “leading the way.” The once great city of San Francisco led the way into dystopian decay under her and the criminal Democrat thug mafia that has controlled it for decades. She helped destroy San Francisco like her mafia connected Democrat father destroyed Baltimore.
No doubt she wants her privileged nepo daughter to further that destruction?
Bad words for the political mother of Newscum? Everything she is Newscum is double.
Nancy Pelosi, the only House Speaker in US history to file TWO failed impeachment actions against a sitting president.
Lost both of them along totally partisan voting lines. She tried to stage a partisan coup from the inside, to gain what she lost in a fair election.
History will record her as the most corrupt elected House Speaker, just behind Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Who could forget how Nancy Pelosi demonized Californians during the coronavirus scamdemic and like of the rest of the Democrats, she pushed masks, social distancing, and vaccines. Yet like a hypocrite during the lockdowns, she was caught at a San Francisco hair salon without wearing a mask for a hair wash and blowout despite the city’s especially severe coronavirus restrictions. After the owner of the salon released video of the incident, Nancy Pelosi attacked her and claimed that the incident a setup. The owner had to sell her salon and leave San Francisco because of the backlash she received.
Nancy Pelosi is a mean and nasty excuse for a human being. She won’t be missed by many of us Californians.
Finally, she’s done. Can’t stand this woman and what she put this country thru. There should be a jail cell waiting for her. Martha Stewart didn’t come close to what this witch has done and she served time. I don’t hate very many people or things, but yea, she’s on that list, pretty much in the top two. If there is ANY justice left in this country she should be in prison. Yea, I really don’t think it’s going to happen. Never does.
Among everything else listed never forget that just before the pandemic was declared she went to China Town and encouraged people to patronize the shops and restaurants. How many people died as a result of people taking up her suggestion and contracting Covid 19 then spreading it to their elderly relatives?
Be careful what you wish for. Whoever comes next will be much worse. Remember that California traded in Senator Diane Feinstein for Senator Alex Padilla — how is that an improvement?? does anyone remember what a fruitcake Padilla was as a State legiscritter?? THAT is what will replace Pelosi, not someone saner. The old guard were at least self-interested. The younger set are much more ideological, and cannot learn better.
Nancy Pelosi is a self interested multi-millionaire and she’s also a far-left ideologue who pushed the radical Democrat agenda her entire career. The new generation of Democrats is no different and her replacement will be just more of the same demonic Democrat insanity.
The Babylon Bee had a funny article entitled “Nancy Pelosi Prepares For Sad Future Of Outsider Trading.” (https://babylonbee.com/news/nancy-pelosi-prepares-for-sad-future-of-outsider-trading)
I guess old Nan has figured the she has stolen enough. Good riddance.